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Yaya Toure Wins African Footballer of the Year for the Fourth Year in a Row + Full List of the Winners

Yaya Toure
Yaya Toure

Manchester City’s Yaya Toure has once again been named Confederation of African Football African Footballer of the Year—this is his fourth winning in four years in a row.

Yaya Toure’s nomination came after helping Ivory Coast qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and also after playing a central role in winning the Premier League and League Cup at his club.

In winning the CAF footballer of the year, Toure, 31 beat off the challenge of Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.

Cameroonian footballer-Samuel Eto’o has also won the African Footballer of the Year award four times but his achievement was not in a row.

Full list of winners…

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